[wip/poc] impl: use flake for profile packages #1588
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This is a proof-of-concept that changes devbox so that it uses the flake when installing packages to a profile. The idea is that this moves a lot of logic out of Devbox and into Nix, where things are more reproducible. It also makes the flake the single source of truth -- packages added to the flake automatically get added to the profile.
When running this in a project where most packages are already in the Nix store (and therefore most time is spent syncing the profile), this runs about a 2.3x faster:
So far it passes all tests except for two: